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Chalk’s hit with multimillion dollar lawsuits after crash

By General Aviation News Staff · February 3, 2006 ·

Two wrongful death lawsuits have been filed against Chalk’s Ocean Airways in the wake of a fatal crash Dec. 19.

The first was filed on behalf of Kendrick Sherman of Bimini, whose wife and daughter were among the 20 people killed. Attorney John Ruiz says that it is a class action suit “to insure that each of the victims’ families share in the $50 million insurance policy Chalk’s carries.” The second, asking for $100 million, was filed for the family of Capt. Michele Marks, pilot of the crashed Grumman G-73T TurboMallard.

Both suits allege that Chalk’s failed to maintain the amphibian properly.

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